southern quotes

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.

- Maya originally MayaJohnson Angelou
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, opening section.

I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush. I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of the bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow, as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the blood-suckers who loll on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls.

-of Bin Bin
My Brilliant Career, ch.38.

   The wonderful Southernnight-sky that makes a manfeel so lonely, alien: with Orion standing on his head in the west, and his sword-belt upside down, and his Dog-star prancing in mid-heaven, high above him; and with the Southern Cross insignificantly mixed in with the other stars, democratically inconspicuous.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Of night over Sydney. Kangaroo, ch.1.

Even though his tongue acquire the Southern knack, he will still have a strong Scots accent of the mind.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Memories and Portraits, ch.1,'The Foreigner at Home'.